STEPS Working Paper 94 November 2017 Rapid urbanisation in India has led to the development of large urban agglomerations. These urban agglomerations, with dense concentration of population and economic activity,…
The Many Circuits of a Circular Economy
Towards a peri-urban political ecology of water quality decline
Recent years have witnessed an expanding body of peri-urban and urban scholarship. However, recent scholarship has yet to adequately address the central role of politics and power shaping water quality…
The Social Life of Mangroves: Resource Complexes and Contestations on the Industrial Coastline of Kutch, India
STEPS Working Paper by Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta on mangrove conservation in Kutch, Gujarat. The paper explores power relations, conservation efforts, and the changes and threats to livelihoods of local pastoralists and fishers.
Peri-Urbanism in Globalizing India: A Study of Pollution, Health and Community Awareness
This paper examines the intersection between environmental pollution and people’s acknowledgements of, and responses to, health issues in Karhera, a former agricultural village situated between the rapidly expanding cities of…
Local Environmentalism in Peri-Urban Spaces in India: Emergent Ecological Democracy?
STEPS Working Paper 96 This paper explores the potential of a range of peri-urban environmentalisms to come together in support of sustainable urbanisation. The present-day ‘urban,’ along with the dominant…
India’s peri-urban frontier: rural-urban transformations and food security
In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. Many people live in poverty and face increasing marginalisation and food insecurity. Yet peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to poverty…
Why Peri-urban Ecosystem Services Matter for Urban Policy
This policy briefing draws on insights from the Risks and Responses to Urban Futures project. This briefing draws on recent research to show how people benefit from ecoystems in and…
Karhera: A photo book
This book tells the story of Karhera, a village between Delhi and Ghaziabad in India, through photographs, maps and words. It was produced as part of an ESPA-funded research project…
Grassroots Innovation Movements
Read the book Buy the book About the book This book, in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability series, looks at how six grassroots innovation movements around the world have…
How to cultivate sustainable developments in makerspaces
This report provides an overview of a workshop on Makerspaces held in London, which involved around 80 participants from the UK and Europe.